Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
Three times a day a train roars through a field a farm away booming like an Angus bull looking for companionship.
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
Every time something breaks like the pipe in the wall we heard gushing this morning my wife wants to call
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
Two new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy’s 1976 Buick into Eagan’s Funeral Home for Tim McGillicud...
Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…
She’s been a widow a year now and at times she still misses him when she drives past the steak house where he
Gramps knows a minister who collects classic Corvettes. He rents another garage whenever he buys another Corvette. He says his estate will sell the c…
Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
